Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
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Gsell: What astonishes me, is that your way is so different from that of other sculptors. They prose the model. Instead of that, you wait till a model has instinctively or accidentally taken an Interesting pose, and thon you reproduce It. Instead of your giving orders to the model, the model gives orders to you.
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Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
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The problem with most digital comics is that you're simply taking print material and adapting it. It's like reading through a cardboard tube.
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Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.
